ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,594, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and program" was invented by Yoshihiro Mishima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Captured images generated by repeated image capture over time by an image capture device provided on a moving body are acquired, and for each pixel in each of said captured images, a probability indicating to which of multiple different area classes, which have been designated regarding multiple targets appearing in the captured images, the pixel belongs is calculated. Among divisional areas obtained by multiply dividing the captured images i...